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...Clearly, the objective was to build support for the position of whoever was organizing each event, while taking potshots at any other approach. One House Republican admitted as much beforehand. Rep. Brian Bilbray, a California Republican, was part of the congressional panel at the San Diego event. In an interview with the San Diego Union-Tribune, Bilbray called the House hearings "a good way to highlight the problems with the Senate bill...
...immigration reform. It's a highly unusual road show designed to get the Senate, which passed a plan to Bush's liking earlier this spring, closer to their more hard-line position. But a more subtle game may be afoot among Republicans, designed to strengthen the compromise plan of Rep. Mike Pence - first reported on TIME.com - that leans in the direction of the hard-line House; it would crank up border security, have a modest guest worker program and insist that illegals leave the country before reapplying for citizenship...
...Translation: The Senate bill has to come a lot closer to what we want. Meanwhile, in the basement of the Capitol, Rep. Mike Pence of Indiana spoke with TIME.com before holding the latest in a series of meetings with Senate hard-liner Jon Kyl of Arizona, a kindred spirit to the House Republicans...
...movement that brings thousands of protesters to the school's gates each year - and that forced the 2001 name change because "School of the Americas" had become too notorious - has brought pressure on Capitol Hill as well. Last Friday, the House of Representatives voted on a measure sponsored by Rep. Jim McGovern, a Massachusetts Democrat, to remove the school's funding - 10 million taxpayer dollars annually - from the 2007 Foreign Operations budget. McGovern's amendment failed in a close vote, 218-188. "We will not go away on this," McGovern told TIME moments after the vote...
...than I actually am." She waits a beat and then adds with a delighted laugh, "Not that I'm interested in debunking the myth!" Yet everybody who's worked with her turns into a geyser of mush about how giving and life-affirming she is. So perhaps the difficult rep arises not from who she is but whom she plays these days. Her characters went from frail to ferocious. In the first 15 of her 44 films, those made before she turned 40, Streep (who turns 57 this month) lost or gave up at least seven children, five husbands...